Sandberg's start is very Sandbergian: giving specific examples of small businesses that thrived on Facebook and people who let each other know they were safe in a natural disaster. It's the whole "Facebook is overall a force for good" argument
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Sandberg calls for more tips sharing. "the faster we can collaborate, the faster we share those tips with each other, the stronger our collective defense will be"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-04/who-s-in-charge-of-protecting-social-media-from-election-interference …
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Dorsey says it's very difficult to let users know for sure if they're seeing tweets from a real person or a machine. But he says "we are interested in it and we're going to do something along those lines," maybe for tweets from the API.
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Alex Jones is now done shouting outside and is in the Dirksen hearing room, sitting silently with a furious face, and the cameras are fixated on him, waiting for him to do something disruptive.
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Ads that discourage people from voting have "no place on Facebook" Discriminatory advertising has "no place on Facebook," Sandberg says. (my commentary here: That just means when people find it Facebook might take it down, but it does NOT mean it's not on Facebook.)
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Twitter is down more than 6% as this hearing continues. Theories from @Selina_y_wang: - The company said it's rethinking some of its business fundamentals - The company said it can't tell difference between humans and bots - There has been some talk of regulation at this hearing
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Sandberg just used the term "alternative facts." ...
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the hate speech policy that allowed discrimination against black children, since "children" is not a protected class, has changed. "What that was was I think a bad policy that has been changed," Sandberg says. Has it? Don't remember Facebook changing their protected class rules.
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Hi Sarah, we recognized there was a gap in our hate speech policies and updated them in the fall of last year. We also now regularly make all policy updates public: https://www.facebook.com/communitystandards/ …
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Thanks! In this specific case, was it just a change in the training materials example, or was it a change in the language of the policy itself?
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We updated the policy language - so if you look at how we define the most violent hate speech, you’ll notice that we now account for a broader set of groups.
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